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A Robot Killed a Woman in Arizona This Week


Uber’s Self-Driving Car Just Killed Somebody. Now What?

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Just Killed a Pedestrian

Uber halts self-driving tests after pedestrian killed in Arizona

Uber’s self-driving car showed no signs of slowing before fatal crash, police say

Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash

Uber Video Shows the Kind of Crash Self-Driving Cars Are Made to Avoid

Uber could blame its driver for this week’s fatal accident, but it shouldn’t

Uber’s fatal self-driving car crash prompts NTSB investigation

Here’s how Uber’s self-driving cars are supposed to detect pedestrians

Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program

Disgraceful Dashcam Video Proves Uber Is the Theranos of Self-Driving

The Unavoidable Folly of Making Humans Train Self-Driving Cars

Other Robot Drivers


Cities Need to Take the Wheel in Our Driverless Future

Driverless Cars & Moral Philosophy

Can You Sue a Robocar?

How Driverless Cars See the World Around Them

Toyota Takes Self-Driving Cars Off Road After Uber Accident

Toyota halts its self-driving car testing in wake of Uber crash

Apple now has more self-driving test vehicles in California than Waymo

Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet has nearly doubled in the last two months

Self-Driving Cars Still Don’t Know How to See

Flying Robots


Homegrown drones, from Syracuse to Rome

Amazon’s Latest Patent Would Make Drones Responsive To Yelling and Arm-Flailing

Amazon’s latest patent is a delivery drone that understands when you shout at it

Robot Abuse


This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad

Robot Capitalism


How the AI cloud could produce the richest companies ever

Anti-Democratic Robots


We’ve Seen What Bots Do to Democracy. Are We Adapting Fast Enough?

Amazon’s Robots


Richest Person in the World Takes Robot Dog For a Walk, Which is Totally Fine and Normal

Jeff Bezos, friend to robots

At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me

FedEx’s Robots


FedEx is embracing more robots, but that doesn’t mean people are getting fired (yet)

FedEx Follows Amazon Into the Robotic Future

IBM’s Robots


IBM can’t stop milking the Watson brand

IBM launches deep learning as a service inside its Watson Studio

IBM’s smart assistant is called … Watson Assistant

IBM’s Watson Assistant lets any company build Alexa-like voice interfaces

Walmart’s Robots


Walmart files patent applications for drone shopping assistants and smart shopping carts

Google’s Robots


Google lends its machine-learning tool to fight deforestation

“Personal Assistant” Robots


Siri, Alexa and That Google Gal Will Only Get You So Far

Insurance Industry Robots


SearchInk rebrands as omni:us, aims its hand-writing reading AT at insurance industry

Robot Lawyers


Lawyaw uses AI to help lawyers draft documents faster

Robot Microscopes


Robot Microscopes Demystify Plankton, the Sea’s Most Vital Residents

Robot Fish


Robotic Fish to Keep a Fishy Eye on the Health of the Oceans

MIT’s soft robotic fish is studying real ones in Fiji

A Robotic Fish With an Undulating Tail That Collects Data by Swimming With the Fish of the Coral Reefs

Robot Hen


Watch a Robot ‘Hen’ Adopt a Flock of Chicks

Robot Moderators


A Window Into How YouTube Trains AI To Moderate Videos

Robot Financial Advisors


Beware of Roboadvisors Bearing Low Fees

Ben is a chatbot that lets you learn about and buy Bitcoin

Robot Politics


Andrew Yang is running for President to save America from the robots

Robot Gamers


EA has started training AI players in Battlefield 1

Robot Builders


Hold this beam for me, friend robot, and let us construct a house together

Robot Doctors


AI could alleviate China’s doctor shortage

AI can spot signs of Alzheimer’s before your family does

AI Helps Scientists Discover New Viruses – Here’s Why That Matters

Robot Dogs


The robot dogs I have loved the most

Teaching Robots


New AI Technology Lets Students Evaluate Professors by ‘Chatting’

Questo AI, “AI powered quiz generator for GCSE students

Bots, AI, & Education update #1, update #2, update #3

Robots, buyouts, and spinoffs: four short stories for the future of education and technology

How Real-World Learning Could Help People Compete With Machines

Hey, Alexa, What Are You Teaching Our Kids?

8 reasons to use a digital assistant in your classroom – I can list many more why you shouldn’t. But then again, unlike ISTE, I don’t take money from corporations to promote certain products or narratives

Robots’ Priorities


AI Hive Mind Chooses Clean Water Over Education as Top World Priority

What’s Next for Humanity: Automation, New Morality and a ‘Global Useless Class’

Audrey Watters


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The History of the Future of Intelligent Machines

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